Comment by gatlin
6 hours ago
The houses available in my area and price range all required an HOA. In general it’s not safe to assume all people have all options at all times.
6 hours ago
The houses available in my area and price range all required an HOA. In general it’s not safe to assume all people have all options at all times.
It's still a choice being made. People choose to live where they live. They could choose to live elsewhere.
Ok.
What is the best alternative to that choice? You can’t answer since you aren’t the one in that position.
Frequently it is the least bad among a bunch of choices.
Choosing to go into crippling debt to pay cancer treatment bills is a choice too, but only a moron thinks the blame should be laid at the feet of the patient for making that “choice”.
You should be allowed to complain about the choices available before you, even if you have an ordinal preference for one over the other
Because moving cities is free and frictionless, because everyone works remote, and their cushy corporate job will pay moving fees. Right?
I said it's a choice. At the end of the day people choose to live in these areas. Yes, it might be because the tradeoffs of not living there or moving away are severe and outweigh the headaches of an HOA, but it's still a choice they make.
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Yeah sure man I could also choose not to have a job
Are you willing to share the general area? I’m curious.
Where I’ve bought houses, HOAs were rare. I’ve always heard about these places where HOAs are the only option but I fortunately haven’t run into one.
I just went to zillow and typed in my zip and tried two different filters for single family homes priced between $300K-$550K:
Listings:
No HOA fee: 32 up to $500/month: 62
I'm not going to bother because this is an HN comment but I think you can imagine what happens to the results when I specify newer than say 1993 (when my house was built).
I have an HOA, but it seems defunct. Everything we do to the house, if visible, can be interpreted to mean I must get unanimous agreements, in writing, from all my neighbors.
It turns out I managed to land right between two asshole neighbors (constant trespassing, dogs, etc)
Do all houses available require an HOA, even the ones that don’t look so nice or aren’t in great neighborhoods? I don’t usually like to go around questioning people’s experiences, but I think a lot of people go around with ideas of what an acceptable street looks like that simply aren’t achievable without an HOA or extreme price segregation.